Writer Paul Hogan is producer-star Paul Hogan's main liability in this intermittently entertaining, but mostly dull, rambling, and derivative comic western.
Hogan plays the title character, a legendary gunslinger who rides with the Younger Gang until a bank robbery in Junction City goes awry and leaves Jack a gang of one. His first solo bank job is a fiasco: Jack nets 50 bucks and a hostage, Ben Doyle (Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Ben, a mute who's tired of
being taken for an idiot, wants to become Jack's partner in crime, but Jack rejects his overtures until Ben saves him twice in the same day from a pursuing posse. When Ben proves hopeless at rudimentary outlaw skill...
Released:
1994
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
93 mins